chetlenox
Silver Member
All,
Cutting, raking and baling the winter grasses in North Texas this week. We live about 20 miles south of Ft. Worth. The equipment used is:
JD 4520 (our tractor)
Rebuilt 70s era New Holland 256 hay rake (finished rebuilding ~3 days before)
Frontier sickle-bar mower
Case tractor (sorry, don't know model) w/~12 year old baler (neighbors)
We were most excited to see the sickle bar (which we bought new this year) run as well as the hay rake, which we bought off craigslist last year and spent significant time rebuilding and repainting.
The grass is mostly winter rye with some clover and wildflowers mixed in for good measure. Not too bad for horses and good for cows. We baled 505 40-50 lb bales off our 14 acre pasture, which is pretty typical. Our 2nd and 3rd cutting will be good clean Coastal Bermuda (which just started growing). It's my wife on the tractor in all the videos, which is actually pretty representative. We've got ~180 hours on the tractor, and I'll bet more than half are hers.
The new sickle-bar in action
Night Raking
Re-raking (for bigger windrows) and baling
This is our 2nd year baling hay on our place, and we are really enjoying ourselves. Next year the final big purchase, the baler, is planned.
Just figured ya'll might enjoy the videos. I am a casual browser of tractorbynet, but I always enjoy the farming-related threads. Especially when they are just little farms like me...
Take care,
Chet
Cutting, raking and baling the winter grasses in North Texas this week. We live about 20 miles south of Ft. Worth. The equipment used is:
JD 4520 (our tractor)
Rebuilt 70s era New Holland 256 hay rake (finished rebuilding ~3 days before)
Frontier sickle-bar mower
Case tractor (sorry, don't know model) w/~12 year old baler (neighbors)
We were most excited to see the sickle bar (which we bought new this year) run as well as the hay rake, which we bought off craigslist last year and spent significant time rebuilding and repainting.
The grass is mostly winter rye with some clover and wildflowers mixed in for good measure. Not too bad for horses and good for cows. We baled 505 40-50 lb bales off our 14 acre pasture, which is pretty typical. Our 2nd and 3rd cutting will be good clean Coastal Bermuda (which just started growing). It's my wife on the tractor in all the videos, which is actually pretty representative. We've got ~180 hours on the tractor, and I'll bet more than half are hers.
The new sickle-bar in action
Night Raking
Re-raking (for bigger windrows) and baling
This is our 2nd year baling hay on our place, and we are really enjoying ourselves. Next year the final big purchase, the baler, is planned.
Just figured ya'll might enjoy the videos. I am a casual browser of tractorbynet, but I always enjoy the farming-related threads. Especially when they are just little farms like me...
Take care,
Chet